Improvement in tobacco-pipe cxxers



G. HAVELL.

TOBACCO PIPE COVER. No.188,627, Patented March 20,1877.

N. PEIERS, FHOTO-LIYNOGRAPHER, WASNIIKSHDI'Iv By C,

UNITED STATES PATENT GEORGE HAVELL, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSKGNOR TOWILLIAM DEMUTH $7.00., OF NEW YORK CITY.

IMPROVEMENT IN TOBACCO-PIPE CQWERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 185,627, dated March'20, 1877; application filed February 14, 1877.

To alluhom it may concern Be it known that l, Gnome UAVELL, oi the cityof Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have inventeda.

new and useful Improvement in Joints for Covers of Tobacco-Pipes and forother articles, which improvement is fully set forth in the followingspecification, reference bcin g had to the accompanying drawing, inwhich- Figure '1 represents a transverse vertical section in the planea: m, Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section in the plane 3; 3 Fig. 1.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts. Thisinvention consistsin-a joint composed of two eyes which are punched up from thenictalcomposing the flanged rim, and of an intermediate eye secured tothe cover, so that the eyes of the flanged rim form an integral partthereof, and a joint is obtained which is durable in use, cheap inmn'struction, and nest in appearance.

In the drawing, the letter A designates the flanged rim, which is madeto fit the top edge of the bowl of a tobaccopipe, and to which isconnected the cover B. The connection between the} rim and the cover iseti'ec'ted by means of a hinge-joint, which is constructed as follows:From the metal which composes the horizontal flange of the rim A arestamped up two eyes, a a, so that these eyes form an integral part ofthe rim, and no further labor is required to secure them in position. 0n

the edge of the cover B is also formed an eye, b, which may be producedout of a lip projeeting from said edge, and forming an integral port ofthe metal composing the cover,

or which may he formed of a separate piece of metal, and secured to thecover by solder.

The eye b is dropped between the punchedup eyes a, and, by passing apin, 0, through the several eyes, the joint is completed.

The cover B, which I have shown in the drawing, is composed of twoparts, viz: a socket and a cap, the cap being retained in the socket bya series of lugs, which can be bent out to admit the cap, and then bentback to retain it in position. This construction of my cover, however,forms the subject of a separate application for a patent, and I do not,therefore, give a more detailed description of the same in this presentspecification. My joint can he used on all covers -for tobaccopipeswhich are connected to the bowl of the pipe by a flanged sheet-metalrim, and it will be readily understood that said joint is alsoapplicable to other articles of sheet metal in which the cover restsupon a horizontal flange.

What claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A joint for covers of tobacco-pipes, composed of two eyes which arestamped up from the metal composing the flanged rim A, and of anintermediate eye secured to the cover B, substantially as shown anddescribed.

In testimony that 1 claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this31st day of January, 1877.

GEORGE 'HA'VELL, Witnesses H. A. Kmesmr, Jouu utr'ro.

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